Toronto announces Canadian slate

Pics include 'Antiviral,' 'Laurence' 'Stories'

TORONTO — Brandon Cronenberg’s Cannes pic “Antiviral” and Sarah Polley’s Venice-bound docu “The Stories We Tell” are among 19 Canuck features unveiled Wednesday by the Toronto Film Festival, which will play across all the fest’s sections.

“Antiviral” and “Stories” will receive North American preems in Special Presentations, which will world preem Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s “Inch’Allah,” about a female obstetrician working in a Palestinian refugee camp, produced by the team behind “Incendies.”

Program will also include Michael McGowan’s “Still,” based on the true story of a man facing jail after trying to build a house for his ailing wife, starring James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold; Kim Nguyen’s “Rebelle,” best narrative winner at Tribeca; Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” and Manon Briand’s “Liverpool.”

Discovery will unspool world preems of Jason Buxton’s “Blackbird,” about a teen whose online threat terrifies a small town; Igor Drljaca’s “Krivina,” following a man who returns to Bosnia to find an old friend accused of war crimes; and Kate Melville’s “Picture Day,” about a high-school senior’s secret night life.

Kazik Radwanski’s “Tower,” in which a lonely man finds intimacy and stalks a pesky raccoon, world-preems in Locarno this month and gets its North American preem in Toronto.